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LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court has ruled that employers may use written, voluntary waivers to forgo 30-minute meal breaks for employees working shifts between five and six hours, so long as the waivers are revocable and not coercive. The ruling came in a published decision issued April 21 by

DES MOINES, Iowa — On Tuesday, the ACLU of Iowa has filed a lawsuit against Gov. Kim Reynolds, accusing her office of violating the state’s open records law by refusing to release documents tied to the cancellation of a proposed Satanic Temple event at the Iowa State Capitol. The lawsuit,

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge has allowed a legal challenge to proceed against Florida’s first-in-the-nation ban on lab-grown meat, setting the stage for a broader battle over food innovation and interstate commerce. The lawsuit was filed by Upside Foods, a California-based producer of cultivated meat, and the Institute for

BREVARD, N.C. — A former police sergeant in Brevard says he was fired for reporting that hundreds of pieces of evidence, including narcotics, were missing from his department’s evidence room, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week. Sgt. Wilson Bunn and the Southern States Police Benevolent Association (PBA)

CHICAGO — A federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the bribery case against state Sen. Emil Jones III after jurors deadlocked on all three charges. U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood issued the decision at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. Jones, a Chicago Democrat, was accused

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that the state did not violate the U.S. Constitution when it seized a small aircraft used to smuggle beer into a dry village, ending a 13-year legal battle that tested the limits of the Excessive Fines Clause. The case centers around